100 Million Records Leaked

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100 Million Records Leaked

This is another example of companies that most of us have never heard of having extensive databases with an enormous amount of personal data. In this case, the researchers found 106,316,633 records containing private information about US citizens meaning approximately one in three US citizens can expect to find their data in the data set.

The leaked data included:

1. Names

2. Emails

3. IP addresses

4. User agents

5. Encrypted passwords

6. Partial payment information

7. Home addresses

8. Dates of birth

9. Phone numbers

10. Property records

11. Legal records

12. Property records

13. Family, relatives, neighbors data

14. Employment history

To make things even worse, the data of 2,319,873 users who subscribed to MC2 Data services were leaked as well.

It is incomprehensible that services like these are allowed to exist without any kind of control or sense of responsibility. Regardless of all the regulations and laws these companies need to abide by, we find time and again that their security measures are below par.

Such a leak is a goldmine for cybercriminals as it eases access and reduces risk for them, allowing them to misuse these detailed reports more effectively.

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